1. CAP Implementation at Deutscher Wetterdienst

2. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Warning process in DWD Portfolio of warnings Formats and publishing of warnings CAP – a powerful data format Status of implementation and route map Open issues First results Next steps Content

3. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Law on the Deutscher Wetterdienst § 4 (1) 3 : … the issuance of warnings of weather occurrences that could become a danger for public safety and order … Types of warnings: Public warnings First candidate for CAP Combination of more then 8 regions with 50 subareas per region and around 20 meteorological parameters Different severity classes Large number of products (upward trend!!) Aviation warnings Warnings for global exchange (subset of public and aviation warnings) Warning process in DWD

4. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Portfolio of public warnings Water Management Lake warnings Transport/Traffic Winterservices Event Organiser Energy Provider Disaster Management Construction Industry Public & Media Avalanche Center detaillierte Strassengebietswettervorhersage Klimagebiet : Altmark Hoehenstufe: 0 - 200 Meter ausgegeben am: Montag, den 12.01.2009 um 10:45 Uhr von : Deutscher Wetterdienst, Regionalzentrale Leipzig Uhrzeit 13 16 19 22 01 04 07 10 13 Bewoelkung 2 2 3 4 5 6 8 8 8 Niederschlag 0 0 0 0 0 0 R 0 R 1 R 0 Lufttemperatur 2 2 -0 -0 -0 0 1 2 3 Wind (km/h) S20 S20 S10 S10 S20 S20 S20 SW10 SW10 Boeen - - - - - - - - - Streckentyp: Standard Belagstemp. 0 -2 -4 -5 -5 -5 -2 0 1 Zustand: - - - - Reif Reif Reif nass nass 10637 * FRANKFURT/M 00860 5005 0111 0108 0 0 10637 +001 2301 14 13 /// /// 22 03 // --- --- 00 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 14 000 000 -003 10637 +002 2302 14 13 /// /// 20 03 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +003 2303 14 13 /// /// 22 03 -- --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +004 2304 14 13 /// /// 21 02 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +005 2305 13 13 /// /// 21 03 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13000 000 -003 NWP Models, -Procedures Observation- Networks Visualisation with NinjoForecaster Production of Bulletins, Warnings, Datasets (e.g. OMEDES, PVW)

5. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Formats and publishing of warnings Default format (text, ia5) Non standardised xml formats Publishing and distribution of public warnings Webbased applications like (DWD or Meteoalarm frontends) Customised distribution via fax, email, ftp, sms and other Published via DWD ftp server Problems: Text format (unsuitable input format for applications) Different customised (hand-made) xml formats Formats and publishing of public warnings

6. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 DWD standard format of xml-based warnings (reduction of customised formats) Standard input format of warning applications (next generation) CAP – a powerful data format of warnings

7. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 First draft implementation for public warnings Access to draft CAP output via DWD ftp-server: For details, please contact: reik.schaab@dwd.de Operational Summer 2011: 1. step: CAP only as an addionally output format for public warnings nexts steps: CAP as standard format of warnings and other warning products Using CAP schema for data exchange between different systems (DWD internally) Status of implementation and route map

8. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 CAP only as an addional format Official Start: June 2011 Using only a subset of CAP possibilities Well-defined classes of warning

9. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Using the full functionality of CAP New products like: Warning with detailed geo references Warning status for different areas … Next generation:

10. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Powerful xsd schema (Version 1.1, draft version 1.2) But some problems: -Critical points: -meteorological parameters ( -tag) -Altitude and ceiling values ( -, -tag) compliant to German / European law -Nice to have: -Message ID ( -tag): ID managed by WMO repository AND orginator -Authority ID ( -tag): ID managed by WMO repository email Open Issues

11. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Description of meteorological parameters (1) Problem: Using the -tag as machine-readable element for meteorological parameters: Combination of value and unit, Ranges of values (e.g. between 10 and 20; > 20 or < 20) DWD / Meteoalarm (first workaround) draft Version 1.2 (workaround) first idea ! Workaround:

12. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Description of meteorological parameters (2) Proposal b) Proposal a)

13. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Altitude / ceiling – compliant to German low CAP version 1.1CAP draft version 1.2 Proposal (unit as optional attribute) with optional attribute (meter) without optional attribute (feet)

14. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Publishing public warning (only as addionally format) via DWD ftp server (for details see: http://www.dwd.de: Special Users, Basic information supply): June 2011 Designing a DWD profile Development of CAP based applications like apps or visualisers Next steps

15. Deutscher Wetterdienst – 23 February 2014 Contact: Dr. Siegfried Fechner Deutscher Wetterdienst Offenbach E-Mail: siegfried.fechner@dwd.de